Must-do items for September

And it is already September! Here are a couple of items to put on your calendar right away:

Bobbaroo, Saturday, September 8, starting 4 p.m.
State Theater, Kalamazoo
$6 minimum donation

Bands include Gull Lake's own Combat Corduroy as well as Frontier Ruckus, Eyes of an Enemy, Asphodel Fields, Patience Patients, Olivet, Red Amendment, Fernelity, The Giving Tree, Daywalker and the Skychild, The Kinds, and Common Shiner.

Come out for a great concert--well, a festival, really--to benefit Bob Hill, a 2005 Gull Lake grad who suffers from a genetic eye disease called keretoconus. Bob started going blind his senior year of high school. Last year a benefit concert at the Richland Area Community Center raised $1,200 to give Bob a corneal transplant in one eye. This Saturday's concert will, we hope, raise enough donations to pay for Bob's second transplant. Any extra money raised will be donated to the next candidate for a benefit concert.

If you can't make it to the concert, you can still donate via First Presbyterian Church in Richland (8047 Church Street, Richland, MI 49083), marking your check "Bobbaroo."


Richland Oktoberfest, September 14-15
Richland Village green, 4 - 11 p.m. Friday, 1 - 11 p.m. Saturday
Admission $5 after 4 p.m. each day

Come enjoy the fun of fall with music, great food, and Saturday daytime activities for kids, sponsored by the Richland Area Business Association. There will be food from Richland Pub, Blackhawk Bar and Grill, and Lakeside Deli, and beer, wine, pop, and water will be available. Some highlights:

Friday, September 14
5 - 7:30 p.m.: Matt Giraud, soloist
7:30 - 11 p.m.: HD5/Classic Fix Band, classic, southern and pop rock

Saturday, September 15
1 - 5 p.m.: Carnival games and petting zoo sponsored by Richland Bible Church
1 - 6 p.m.: Project Safe Kids, fingerprints and Amber Alert information taken on children for their parents to keep on file, sponsored by Richland Police and Lindsay's Run
1 - 7 p.m.: Bouncy sponsored by Gull Lake Community Volunteers
5:30 - 6 p.m.: Puppet show sponsored by RBC
5 - 7 p.m.: Rock climbing wall sponsored by Sherman Lake YMCA
1 - 5 p.m.: Dunk tank sponsored by Richland Fire Association
6 - 6:45 p.m.: Magician Alan Smola sponsored by Richland Village Drug Store
7 - 11 p.m.: Drop 35, dance band

See you there!